Saw this video this morning and it got me thinking. I've never had this scenario play out, but I'm pretty sure I'd do the same thing as her. Basically, the girl had hunted the same deer for three years in a row and could never get it done. This year, while hunting for the target deer in a food plot, a mature buck stepped out that was injured. Rather than passing the injured deer and waiting for the deer she was hoping for, she elected to take the injured deer. The deer she ended up harvesting was a mature 3.5 buck that had a bullet wound and was survivor of EHD. I would hate to see the animal suffer. Given the opportunity to harvest a wounded animal, regardless of size, I feel harvesting is the right thing to do even if that means my season is over and I could no longer harvest the buck I was after. What would you do?
https://vimeo.com/57384196